Psalms 84

1 To the chief music-maker; put to the Gittith A Psalm. Of the sons of Korah. How dear are your tents, O Lord of armies!

For the end, a Psalm for the sons of Core, concerning the wine-presses. How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!

2 The passion of my soul's desire is for the house of the Lord; my heart and my flesh are crying out for the living God.

My soul longs, and faints for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh have exulted in the living god.

3 The little birds have places for themselves, where they may put their young, even your altars, O Lord of armies, my King and my God.

Yea, the sparrow has found himself a home, and the turtle-dove a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, [even] thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God.

4 Happy are they whose resting-place is in your house: they will still be praising you. (Selah)

Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will praise thee evermore. (Pause)

5 Happy is the man whose strength is in you; in whose heart are the highways to Zion.

Blessed is the man whose help is of thee, O Lord; in his heart he has purposed to go up

6 Going through the valley of balsam-trees, they make it a place of springs; it is clothed with blessings by the early rain.

the valley of weeping, to the place which he has appointed, for [there] the law-giver will grant blessings.

7 They go from strength to strength; every one of them comes before God in Zion.

They shall go from strength to strength: the God of gods shall be seen in Sion.

8 O Lord God of armies, let my prayer come to you: give ear, O God of Jacob. (Selah)

O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer: hearken, O God of Jacob. (Pause)

9 O God, let your eyes be on him who is our safe cover, and let your heart be turned to your king.

Behold, O God our defender, and look upon the face of thine anointed.

10 For a day in your house is better than a thousand. It is better to be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to be living in the tents of sin.

For one day in thy courts is better than thousands. I would rather be an abject in the house of God, than dwell in the tents of sinners.

11 The Lord God is our sun and our strength: the Lord will give grace and glory: he will not keep back any good thing from those whose ways are upright.

For the Lord loves mercy and truth: God will give grace and glory: the Lord will not withhold good things from them that walk in innocence.

12 O Lord of armies, happy is the man whose hope is in you.

O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusts in thee.